You want shoes while he needs food
He needs counsel while you need that iPhone
She needs to be saved while you take that selfie
Their tears drown the night at you laugh at YouTube
Her body shakes as her feet teeter on the edge
You just texted a friend goodnight
A city cries for survival from the men and their machines
We all just sit on the mound of spoils
Knowing, caring, yet not doing
Not doing anything to save those who fall
Need and want collide in the eyes of America
So we don't really see the agony
At all
YOU ARE READING
Fight Your Demons
PoetryPoetry from an angry boy, too scared to be a man A paper heart and an incarcerated mind Caged words and a broken tongue The words spilt in the night This is the absence of light, the expired fight All the demons come to take him away In hopes he w...
